News Footage: Protests and Demonstrations (reel 1)

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: 1. Iranian Demo, Civic Center, San Francisco (1978): large demonstration, banner "Militant Struggle of Iranian People Smashes US backed Shahs Martial Law", various posters, banners and signs calling for end of US military intervention in Iran, Iranian independence, line of police with helmets looks on, protesters with their faces covered, signs in Persian, banner in front of Capitol "Shah is a US Puppet, Down with the Shah", burning effigy of Shah with swastika on his shirt, small fire on street, line of riot cops, CU masked protesters, masked protester seated on curb, protesters chanting and marching with fists in the air, line of police facing line of protesters,representative talks to media 2. Iranian student reaction: reporter interviews various Iranian college students outside school entrance 3. Anti-Marcos Rally: Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos visits Hawaii. Anti-Marcos demonstrators rally in San Francisco to protest regime that they allege is one of treachery and mass murder. 2 protesters in costume as Ferdinand Marcos and Jimmy Carter with creepy plastic masks, protesters gathered on sidewalk. Banner "No Aloha for Marcos", poster "Marcos Rules A Bloody Land Exim Bank Lends a Hand", effigies of Jimmy Carter and Marcos, banner for the Anti Martial Law Coalition, sign "Free Elections under a Dictatorship is a Farce", burning effigies 4. Moses Hall Occupation in UC Berkeley (1968): lots of student protesters, cops with helmets enter, erect barriers, protester addresses crowd through megaphone. Protesters enter building en masse flashing peace signs, university administration office, spokesperson addresses students while office staff sit observing the scene from their desks, large group of students chant and cheer in the office, three students on the roof of the building, protesters outside, "End Racism" sign, students standing around and watching, students gathering in groups, reporter reports from the scene. 5. Lockheed Nuke Protest (1978)outside United States Navy Naval Industrial Reserve Ordinance Plant. Banner "repose ye in peace for the mistake shall never be repeated, 6 august 1945", teenage girl holding sign "Hiroshima and Nagasaki" behind chicken wire fence. White van with Sunnyvale 911 logo pulls up. Protesters stage die-in, protester face down on ground with sign that reads "nuclear victim", protester being carried off by cops and put into paddy wagon, children protesting with adults, more passive resistance protesters being carried away by cops, cop photographing arrests, sign on fence "Us navy Property with protesters picketing in background, banner "NO More Hiroshimas, Abolish Nuclear Weapons", group of protesters walk towards entrance of building, protesters behind chicken wire fence, more "dead" protesters at steps of building, more arrests.